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By: Michael Veitch
ISBN: 9780733648472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling, vivid history of the secret army of civilians who worked with the Australian Defence Force during World War II as 'Coast Watchers', observing Japanese movements along the coastlines and in the jungles of the South Pacific.
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By: Mark Dapin
ISBN: 9781742236360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myth.
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By: James Phelps
ISBN: 9781460756225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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By: Mandy Sayer
ISBN: 9781742234670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories of the country. In this volume, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging history of Gypsies in Australia. Given their blessing to tell their stories, Sayer also demolishes some longstanding but baseless myths along the way.
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By: Phillip Bradley
ISBN: 9781760111892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The story of the famous Australian Light Horse in the desert campaigns of World War 1.
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By: Jack Marx
ISBN: 9780733627330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9781925267280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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In the third volume of Thomas Keneally's unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and unknown - he takes up the story at the end of the Great War and explores our development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century.
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By: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9781743311950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
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By: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9781760632359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
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By: Thomas Keneally
ISBN: 9781742374505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
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By: Alice Sherwood
ISBN: 9780008412654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Peer Vries
ISBN: 9781350196179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Maria Tumarkin
ISBN: 9781761043581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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By: Georgina Banks Georgina Banks
ISBN: 9781761341137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Hardback, New edition)
By: Anna-Marie Crowhurst
ISBN: 9781802792362
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonce, body positivity and #MeToo.
(Hardback)
By: Quenton Baker
ISBN: 9781642599480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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By: Oliver Moody
ISBN: 9781399814287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A blend of history, politics and map-hopping reporting exploring one of the most important but overlooked theatres of change: the Baltic.
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By: Peter Chapman
ISBN: 9781838857875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2022
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.
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By: Dr Murray Dahm
ISBN: 9781472858061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472142139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes and failures both of the key opponents of Rome's rise and dominance, and of the those who ultimately brought the empire down.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Boylan
ISBN: 9781472843920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Featuring original 1: 2,500,000-scale German military maps, this is a beautifully presented atlas of the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign.
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By: Stewart Binns
ISBN: 9781472276292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Barbarossa is the story of the battle for the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of military history.
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By: Jonathan Dimbleby
ISBN: 9780241979198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Thomas H Ford
ISBN: 9780522878783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Asked to determine whether Governor Macquarie had authority to impose taxes in New South Wales, Barron Field issued a fateful judgement that established, for the first time, what is now called terra nullius. This book is an extraordinary reconstruction of the circumstances and implications of Fields actions.
